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Brian Tom keeping it extra Munchie hopefully your tummies are full of Thanksgiving turkey cranberry sauce and all that good stuff but thanks so much for joining us it's episode believe it or not beach 110 oh that's kind of cool it's actually 1 11 111 sori you're right it is 111 I looked at the wrong number I'm sorry I would be if you haven't realized that everything I say is literally like there's someone on the side here hand typing things and then I just say what they say I know episode 111 thanks so much for joining us this is kind of our complimentary piece to the Apple byte main show and again tons of news drop so we kind of update you with the latest also gives us a little more time to talk and freestyle about what is happening in the big stories the thing is also you guys and gals are a part of this show every week you keep on bringing it for us so call us at 1-800-695-1418 mirrorless cameras ever made now um if you ever played at the a7 this is amazing number nine check it out Apple watch three LTE I'm you know that we've talked about how it kind of really it's finally a product worth getting that I can wholeheartedly be behind because of its evolution I love that number eight Xbox one x 4k gaming the most powerful console right now on the market but it's not really being utilized because developers have to get to it number seven Amazon echo second generation very cool kind of revamped in more miniaturized number six the Super Nintendo Entertainment System the SNES classic that most people did not get yeah did not get one that I could care less could care less number five the Samsung Galaxy s8 people are gonna debate that one number four the DJI spark they're palm-sized drone from the Masters of drones DJI number three the Microsoft Surface laptop Wow the hybrid not a laptop not a notebook just a little bit of everything love it the number two what we all talk about here every week the iPhone X or you know the iPhone 10 tan-tan-tan-tan iPhone 10 made it for number two and number one the number one gadget according to time and whatever how much relevance you put behind time that's up to you the Nintendo switch was the number one gadget of the year hmm that's pretty clear the only reason why I I kind of I don't know if it's number one but I think it's a top three the Nintendo switches because although we've had the PS Vita and the DS before this is like at least quote unquote console level gaming that's portable and the fact that they have two ridiculous games this year with Mario Odyssey and a Zelda it's breath a wild I mean that it does legitimize the fact I still think a phone is gonna be a better gadget than a game console yeah it's good yeah a lot more uses with the phone definitely Apple 10 yeah yeah totally but I've been asking for my wife with a Nintendo switch like is that you need that broke so those are the top 10 best gadgets of the year one of them on that list was the Amazon echo and who is chasing the echo right now it's Apple Apple is chasing the echo with the home pot now recently I know you all probably heard or saw about the home pod delay right do you remember that yeah that's a big dropped I think on Friday after our show and basically Apple gave us the spiel that it's not ready yet we want to give the best product to our customers so we're gonna hold it back until early March I did a whole kind of eight minute rant about it just to talk about the home pod Wyatt why it's really a misstep we had the air pods that were delayed last year for the holiday season they came out really more like December 13th but by the time they were released they sold out they were on a six-week waiting list if you ordered them from Apple until July of this rear so it was based on a waiting list for seven seven months six seven months so now they're doing the same thing right they have this hey we're gonna have this new holiday product out it's gonna be the home pod but they're pushing it back as well you can kind of see all the things I said about it in our Apple bite episode but it's not a good look for Apple and they've done this two years back-to-back and yeah it's a bad apple it's a bad apple so then our buddies at Bloomberg Mark Garmin the man right he decided to kind of give it this whole backstory of really why is Apple's home pod three years behind the Amazon echo and I think from day one we have always talked about oh people say what is Apple's next thing the Amazon echo is the next thing right it's the it has been the newest hottest consumer platform and it's been that for at least the past sure three years ago it wasn't as understood but now I'd say going strong for at least two years Google has there a Google home product both of these are stellar in different ways both these do things that guess what the whole pods not going to be able to do so I'm gonna kind of paraphrase you can check out this great article of some of the things that happen with the home pot so this is kind of where it starts Apple had been working with their audio engineers who wanted to create kind of a superior audio device but they had five years ago quite honestly but they had been working on an early version of the home pod speaker for about two years in 2014 when they were literally blindsided by the echo smart speaker from Amazon the Apple engineers even jokingly accused each other of leaking the details to Amazon because it was like how how could it be doing this so they bought echoes to take them apart right this is what other companies used to do for Apple they buy their product take it apart to see how they're put together and what what Apple did in classic Apple style they're like oh the audio quality is totally inferior we're gonna make a better speaker because at the time Apple's focus was let's make an amazing speaker that sounds better than anything Sonos bose monster all these companies they wanted to make again kind of their own high-end speaker look if you're a fan of audio and if you work for a company that will let you pursue these side projects I'm happy to hear that they were able to pursue this but here's the thing where they missed right it says in more than two years had passed right the echo took off became a hit with customers integrated the voice integrated new apps the accessibility to it it made it a killer product like I still use my echo today I used it first I bought it first I have a home just to kind of use it as comparison but the echo is the center of my smart home ecosystem and this is really where things fell off because think about this Apple had all the ingredients for to make an echo like product they had Siri like the first consumer assistant before anyone else really did right I mean we talked about how sir you were like oh my gosh it's so cool right Siri is the first first robot assistant I ever spoke to and I was excited it was like it was it was a future it felt like the future I was telling my phone is set alarms you know timers what's the weather like all this kind of stuff and and now I'm talking to alexa way more you know unless you know my phone's right next to me or something but yeah Alexa has definitely come and taken over my house you know I'll use Siri to set like basic alarms or timers but when I'm in the kitchen you know I'm playing music through the echo I'm asking it to set timers when I'm cooking I'm turning on the lights and off it's become in my brain the assistant that I talk to and again Apple had Siri Apple's at the app store they could have tied all these things together but they were focused because you know I'm sure guess what there was no vision for it they didn't know what other people were thinking normally they set the bar for what people are thinking about so they never had someone say let's make a smart speaker Amazon was doing that right and again let's reflect that Amazon didn't have at the time a heritage or a history of being a consumer electronics device sure they have the tablet and the Amazon phone they played with that at the fire products they aren't runaway successes but they used what they had they learned from it they came up with the echo right this is a company that's really an e-commerce company at its core yeah and they came out with the echo before Apple well the thing that thing that's also really great about the echo is that they made it affordable it was like a hundred dollars not three hundred and fifty dollars like the echo dot is $50 or $40 now they're just making an affordable and easy for people to get and set up and use and you know the home pod feels out of reach for me it's $350 that is that is a lot of money you know that's not that's not just like a $50 you know you know that's that is a big investment for something that who knew who knows how long it's gonna last on your shelf you know so here's also you're absolutely right and here's also kind of some of the thinking that's detailed in the article again the home pod was cooked up as a side project for audio engineers that worked inside of Apple alright they were the Mac audio engineers they wanted to create a speaker better than bose better than JBL better than Harman Kardon and others and that's that sounds great that sounds wonderful you know like I'm all for that but they totally missed the boat on the AI personal assistant you know and they had the lead by years it wasn't even like oh they had a six-month lead they had a one-year lead they had the lead by years so this is the thing they were so look they were looking at this so much like an actual speaker they even talked about how you know they want as they were building this speaker they didn't want it to be a direct sound speaker their their strategy was we use this kind of anticipated technology at the time called beamforming and basically a direct sound in different areas of the room in different ways by detecting where it's at and then helps kind of create this 3d sound that's what they were doing right so again guess who has this the Amazon echo uses a little differently they use it they use beamforming to listen to us talk to it but things like the Google home max that is expected to come out by the end of this year so Knossos speaker smart speaker that has Alexa integration is also doing that as well using beamforming but now let's look right now at what Apple has in the home pod and how it stacks up apples home pod has access natively to one service Apple music apples home pod also does have not have will not have at least out of the gates any type of third-party support so for example if you ever have fiddled with Amazon's echo and you want to find something I've talked about this before I like to listen to like white noise when I sleep like the sound of waves crashing there's apps you can just look on the Amazon echo app and be like uh whites noise or waves crashing and there's one called like smooth ocean sounds or something like that I use that every night you do I used to use an iPad so I would I'd open up the iPad and I turn on white noise and then play like waves crashing yeah but now that was a process I had to go to my iPad push a button find the app turn it on find the sound now I just go Alexa start ocean sounds and then it's exactly you know it's like like 10 times easier so so I'm sorry I don't use my iPad I actually deleted the sound effect off my iPad the other day I don't need it anymore yeah and so you have all these third-party apps thousands of apps that Amazon made accessible so they have a better app community they have better third-party support they have more music services and let's say their flagship product I can't remember the price on my head it's around 170 right now okay yeah you guys can correct me later but the the whole pot isn't compelling enough even if you're an Apple user it's like it's only going to do some basic series like yeah set reminders and timers but it's so limited at 3:49 coming out of the gate and all I'm gonna say is that sound better blow me away I know it's gonna be better than the echo I know it's gonna have better sound than the home and so people are really gonna be buying this in today's day and age to have a speaker that is really I'm sorry I'm gonna say it the dumbest smart speaker that's coming out on the market it's not a good thing yeah let me read you the music services that are on Amazon's echo Amazon my music which you have for free if you have a Amazon Prime account Apple music is their Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio tune in there so knows audible Kindle it's like there's just a massive list right here and like three of them that I use regularly you know and then I'm gonna get a home pod and have Apple music only which I don't subscribe to I'm sorry you lost me so we'll wait you know this is not a dump this is again real talk of what is happening don't say we're hating on Apple everything we've said is completely factual it's just damn disappointing it is disappointing it's disappointing and again it's not they're not Apple isn't one year behind are tears behind they're legitimately three years behind they had another delay it's coming in early 2018 look no one works during December really it's like kind of like in tech people they you have extended vacation people aren't gonna be working to try and get this home pod out in January if I am wrong you can spank me and give me a bad apple but I'm expecting we're probably gonna see something about the home pod in March of 2018 and then it also makes me wonder like literally when we look at what the home pot has inside of it I'm not saying I can do this but it's not like it's a super complex product compared to what other smart speakers are doing out in the market yeah it's not so in the sound quality is there big selling point and they should have definitely taken that in a different direction you know focused on the AI personal assistant like I will tell you right now they do have a chance to wow us and Wow me with sound quality because I went to Google's Google has - pop-up shops in the u.s. one in New York and one in Southern California off of Melrose Avenue I went to that store and I listened to the Google Mac home max it was a big speaker it did not sound as fool like it didn't have as deep of a bass tone as I wanted in a speaker that size also the touch controls on it they were continuously reminding me it was a prototype they're like oh it's a little sensitive so don't touch here don't do that it'll get better when it's done I'm like okay but you're showing this on a showroom floor so I'm gonna take it for what it is a from what I saw the Google home acts is not good enough from what I saw to be like okay it's gonna be better than the home pod but again the whole pod still hustle while the home pod celsa proved to me that it's even worth 350 bucks I mean quite honestly it's not gonna replace my Amazon echo I don't even have a second generation Amazon echo I probably should just cuz I need to compare to them eventually but the home pod can win in sound quality but it's not gonna win an app support third-party support or assistant support and that's those are really the key thing key reasons to use a smart speaker yeah yeah I agree definitely so we're not pooping on it we're just talking home pods if you guys and gals listening live want to tweet us at brian tong i'll take a look at that and maybe we can throw in your tweets at the end of show when we get to the calls so before we do that though guess what we keep the lights on because we have these amazing sponsors so I'm just gonna jump into it with our friends from or be and I know you guys have heard about this company Wi-Fi is something you don't really think about until you don't have it or guess what it's not working properly you have videos that are buffering you've got Wi-Fi dead zones when you're roaming around the house too many devices are connecting and slowing everything down so with the holidays 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we'll do that do it baby check it out alright let's keep on jumping through the show other news that dropped in here during this short week and really towards the end of last week new rumblings about the iMac pro like honestly I'm not gonna lie to you I kind of it was kind of an afterthought that oh yeah the iMac Pro is still coming this year like this was their $4,999 behemoth of an iMac and if you recall at the time once they announced it I was like okay that's really cool you're making a super-powerful iMac and this also happened you know after Apple had revealed oh we're gonna start working on a modular desktop because that's what professionals want and it also aligned up with the fact that look the iMac Pro is a reflection of how Apple completely doesn't understand their customers as much they put the iMac pro is going to sell to a specific market because of its form factor but and it's gonna have server grade level processors but for it showed where Apple's vision was was wrong they're like oh we're gonna make a crazy iPad III Mac Pro okay well here it is I think people are going to buy it but not it's not gonna be a consumer devices for the pros but pros still aren't gonna be happy with the iMac Pro the pros are gonna be like alright this is a stopgap because you missed the boat and completely ignored the Mac Pro and didn't know what you're doing and now we have the iMac Pro that's supposed to hold us over for a year maybe a year and a half it's just a black it's a reflection of just how poorly Apple had thought out their professional strategy and thought this is really what pros wanted so there are some cool news from the iMac pro for people that aren't interested in it one of them we have developers that really kind of dig into code that kind of can reveal nuggets of what's going on these guys that revealed so much about the iPhone when there was that leak of iOS 11 early on you know someone like Stephen Chow Smith guilhom Rambo is another guy they looked at some of the code in it have been able to dig up that this new iMac Pro is expected to have a complimentary a10 fusion chip right the same chip similarly that is in our OS devices it will be supported with 512 Meg's of RAM and will give although we don't know the full functionality of what this a-10 ship will be capable of it will at least appear that the chip will enable support for hey Suri functionality even interestingly enough this is kind of interesting when the my Mac Pro is turned off now whether that means the iMac is asleep I don't think it's when it's completely turned off but maybe it is I mean in a weird way I wonder if if it was active in the background you can say hey Siri turn on my iMac that would be kind of interesting and kind of cool right that would be cool so it's like it's it's like in a standby mode like my ps4 does this it goes standby mode yes which kind of annoys me because then I know it's drawing power you know it's like you see that glow on it yeah but that that's interesting so it's gonna be listening to you all the time - so you got a like a listening device in your house but that's in serene you and I are you you know we both use echo I think most people now these days it's like if it makes my life easier I don't care that everyone's listening all the time there's very few people that are now there are people that are saying I don't want listening devices in my home but I think it's not it's a lot less now it keep continues to get smaller and smaller those group of people that don't want listening devices our phone is a listening device we have a yeah and a pretty sure fate my Facebook app is listening to me and serving me ads when I talk about certain things oh yeah but but yeah I mean that's that's interesting like if you can wake up your computer say wake up computer or something like that and a turns I'm I'm I'm all for that all right I know you're down with that so yeah what was cool is that there is a actual kind of custom OS specific for the a-10 on the iMac pro that has been revealed as it will be called bridge OS so that's what they were able to dig into and kind of reveal some of this interesting information I thought that was pretty cool another thing iMac related is that according to more reports the iMac Pro could feature something like a Find My iPhone type feature a cornea bloggers Pyke's Universum that actually were some of the first people to reveal the specs for this reported iMac Pro before it was officially announced by Apple they're the ones that said look we expect to see Intel next generation server grade processors in an iMac Pro they were the ones that called it out first but they've also been able to find out that it looks like there will be some sort of advanced theft protection similar to the Find My iPhone service where it will know exactly your computer so that's nice yeah just a little nugget about the iMac Pro that is again four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine dollars starting I do start out because I love mine here at work I do love it I do as a work computer if works gonna pay for it hell yeah yeah yeah right like yeah you know if you're the professional industry of video editing you want your company buy you an iMac Pro but you also still would rather have your company buy you a Mac Pro that's modular yeah all right that would be nice so I could put some cards in it do some other stuff all the types of good stuff okay we'll just kind of go through there was some also future iPhone you know just we always get more new stories and nuggets about what's coming from the iPhone what's coming next a new report by maangchi quo and KGI says that the 2018 iPhones again last week we talked about how they're expected to come in three sizes a five-point eight and a six point five which will be OLED based and a 6.1 inch that will be LCD based with a lower pixel per inch density that I jokingly say blurry but people took me seriously and said dude it's not gonna be a blurry screen like there's a lot of like come on yeah but they're just they're worried they're too concerned the people that get the joke or like that's funny okay alright so this news story from et quo and digit I'm just saying that the 2018 iPhones will feature an upgraded antenna design specifically to boost LTE transmission speeds it will feature an upgraded liquid crystal polymer antenna modules that will help to contribute to faster LTE transmission speeds the new phone models will use at least two LCP antenna modules much like the iPhone 10 currently does but with improvements to support the new 4x4 MIMO standards and so I was like okay I've heard of 2x2 MIMO like what exactly is that well thanks to the power of our friend at Google justgo we can all learn here about though there's people that do know everything 2x2 MIMO devices are devices with dual antennas and radios so that allows them to communicate via two streams of transmission and reception of data and information there are 3 by 3 MIMO devices but these new antennas that are expect to be popped into the LTE are starting the 2018 iPhones will support 4 by 4 MIMO so that's four streams of to transmit and receive data which will obviously help boost their effectiveness and we've also heard there was a story about Apple me talking with Intel and potentially the 2018 iPhones only using Intel modems and that instantly kind of makes me cringe or like kind of a little like squeamish because we know what kind of the story in the background how in the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 10 some phones have Qualcomm modems some phones have Intel modems it has literally been tested and proven that the Qualcomm modems perform better they support more bands but also Apple and Qualcomm are going into this legal back-and-forth battle where Apple saying Qualcomm char too much for the modems Qualcomm is saying you throttled our modems so they basically hate each other okay and so therefore Apple is looking to work with Intel exclusively from what we have heard with the 2018 iPhones that remains to be seen but to me that would be that would hurt because really we want the FASTA tech in there this is such an inside baseball that's exactly why people listen to this podcast but I want to Kwak I wish I could still have a Qualcomm modem in my iPhone 10 but I don't have it because I got an Intel I'm sorry an AT&T / t-mobile GSM phone which is using the Intel modem where the Verizon and Sprint phones do have access to the Qualcomm modems so this is just the picture right here of the I mean that's just modem it's just a picture it's you know the actual component it's just kind of a fun marketing picture you know like hey it's a square that says the word until 5g modem so would this be like a case of like a company biting the hand that feeds them or something in wait who's biting who though like is Apple biting Qualcomm or is it Qualcomm yeah they're biting Qualcomm I think Qualcomm has every right to be mad but at the same time apples a company can't have two phones that are the same phone on the exterior and one performs significantly better than the other right like there's a cop Apple is about also guess what it's about margins about costs I'm pretty sure the Qualcomm modem is more expensive than the Intel modem it also is a better-performing modem and if you have hundreds of millions of devices it's smart not to rely on one single supplier but you still have to pump out phones you still have to give them to the people and so throttling down one of the modems so that it can't reach its full potential in order to have a somewhat consistent result across your entire product line is something that they do have to do you know I just wish it wasn't that way yeah yeah so it's interesting anyway we'll see what happens with that and then another small story about the iPhone or at least Apple in general working with new displays and screens is that Apple is collaborate with its Taiwanese supplier TSMC they make plenty of displays for Apple in the past but they're working to solve manufacturing issues with kind of the next generation of displays called micro LED displays what's different is they do have a lot of the same benefits as ol Ed's the cheap deep true blacks that are optimized to be energy-efficient wide color gamut as well the main thing about a micro LED display is the fact that it is actually thinner than the current ole Ed's it's a little it's even more energy efficient but I got expect that we'll see maybe the first indications and we had heard rumors of micro LED displays potentially being used in Apple watches in the future but they're nowhere near even getting enough factories to build OLED screens other than Samsung at a large size so I wouldn't see it coming anytime soon for now like micro LEDs coming to an iPhone next year now I mean it's got to be at least a couple years out so mmm so there you go um two other little quick bullet just a couple other quick bullet points Apple opened its visitor center on campus our CNET proper gotta check it out I have not yet been able to see it but it has features like an Apple Store it has this cool new architecture you have like exclusive goodies that you can only get from the Apple Campus you know it's it's the new place that you can go visit so they had a lot of cool stuff going on with there so just check it out we have a video up and they had some neat stuff going with that and then finally before we get to our calls this has to be the executive the Apple executive boo boo bad apple of the week did you see the story Beach at all I don't think I have okay so check this out last week Apple's Tim Cook tweeted a congratulatory message to Australia on its same-sex marriage vote so he tweeted it out and then he tweeted out a flag but that flag was actually the New Zealand flag emoji and not the Australian flag emoji oh man and you know that he heard from people I am obviously not a flag expert so I used a amazing tool called Google and found like the big difference that there's a large star on the Australian flag it's the Commonwealth star it's associated with Australia that is there but is not existent on the New Zealand flag also the New Zealand flag has four stars on it that are five-point stars they're red with white outlines whereas the Australia as 45.0 for seven point stars and one 5-point star on it I'm just giving you guys Google the Google you know you're gonna you know you're gonna get a google it you're gonna Google Australia versus New Zealand flag and you're gonna learn everything I just told you okay the Australian flag we're looking at here and then New Zealand people like I don't see anything bro they're like I don't care well do I know someone's missing right someone right now is I literally know there's at least five listeners who are typing in New Zealand versus Australis like right now I'm gonna have guarantee I'm gonna have to forgive Tim Cook on this one cuz look at how similar they are look at that row come on everyone knows what the Australian flag looks like compared to Zealand flag that's common sense oh man right that is common sense shame on us just kidding alright so we get to the comments do it thank you guys all for calling we had a lot of great phone calls we whittled it down to five because that seems to be a good number of calls to pop so here we go here's caller number one hey what's up guys this is in a gym I'm calling from Miami I'm leaving a second message because the first one got cut off but I wanted to talk to you about augmented reality and how I think Apple has spending way too much time and money on a alert and a arcade and all these sensors that they want to put in the phone for a hour I first saw a are maybe like seven or eight years ago on the Nintendo 3ds when it came out and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world but I got over it really fast and ever since then the best implementations of AR have been maybe Pokemon go and snapchat filters and neither of those two things really required you know 3d sensors or things like that they maybe use image recognition and that about it so I think Apple is a little silly for spending so much time and on the sensors and and a research and whatnot to get AR into the iPhone when in my opinion there are no big killer apps for AR no real reasons to use it in my opinion what do you guys think do you think that there's a lot of potential in AR and that's why we're focused on it so are you in my board will you think it's a little overrated and a little bit of look in it let me know what you guys think I love your show I'll keep it up thank you thank you hey Beach where you stand with this aye aye aye at first I agreed with him but after thinking about it I disagree I think gaming they're trying to corner the you know the market on gaming so having these 3d chips is gonna allow you to you know sense like a wall or a door or a piece of furniture or something so then that will become an object in your AR world you know I think I think they're aiming towards that like I understand like the snapchat thing is cool but that just is modeling your face pokemons go is kind of cool but those things are just kind of randomly placed right so I think Apple is going in a good direction with this if they want to corner that market but it's already you know there's so many people already in that space it's hard to say if they're gonna make something really cool that's compelling yeah I think you think we've been able to get some hidden you know some lucky gems from AR I don't know if it's gonna be the the thing about it is if you think of AR and you think about it like in 10 years from now obviously to me there's a lot of potential this is a playground where you have to play in because as we've seen just historically there's gonna be technology platforms whether it's hardware based or software based that become the hot thing to do and you have to try them and you have to see if it sticks if it resonates and sometimes a piece of technology is too young and then we see a take off way later for example like Microsoft had tablets way before app like not even year like a couple years like ten years before Apple did the iPad and then all of a sudden the right company at the right time with the right software happens to put it out there and then all of a sudden it was like oh wow tablets are actually worth like using and now it's evolved where we're really starting to more of a tablet laptop hybrid I think with a are we to your point I agree with you we haven't seen many successes but I think there's huge potential and when I look at AR right now 10 hours to me it's like being able to wear glasses that show you information while you're or even like your dashboard on your car with cameras that sense things it's partially is gaming that's probably gonna be its easiest way to show how it can be successful to a consumer audience but when I go past that it could be medical fields it can be driving it can be heads-up displays clap some sort of glasses that not everyone will wear but people will wear and if it can become useful and serve amazing information that makes our life easier then it will but I don't I don't even think we've seen we see maybe like 10 percent of what AR is capable right now just watch Minority Report that's what I want to see I would even my own I want to be the Terminator and just like look around and identify you know like see if a dude's leather pants and glasses match you and then take them off his body and then wear them outside of a bar yeah I want to be able to identify threats and like it'll just say kill kill you know and I'll have to kill this person now okay we're gonna take that out of context cuz then someone's gonna post a clip of you beat up and say like Steven Beecham is crazy terminator I'm the Terminator so you know what I don't know what other people think but I'm still excited about but yeah we haven't seen anything that says yes this is gonna revolution him Routh Allah revolutionize my life it hasn't yet it's not there yet but there are small steps to get to that point alright next call thank you very much Miami I forget his name all right here we go hey this is Brian from New Orleans I've had my own tent since launch day something I really like about it is actually face ID really like just being able to swipe up and I'm in my phone don't even have to worry about positioning my thumb the right way some things I'm still getting used to is the added weight I feel like my fingers are getting stronger from holding the phone yeah I know I guess that we'll see fingers but still getting used to that quick tip I downloaded the quick clips app and it would not work on my iPhone actually called Apple support and I kicked around to three different people they had me backup restore my phone none of that work so finally under system privacy settings and location services and system services if you have compass calibration turned off the Eclipse app will not work properly so I took a couple phone calls and about Choppers with Apple to get that figured out so that's your if anybody else have compass calibration turned off under privacy settings but if you do turn it back on alright I mean I would have known I would have probably tried to figure that out like him but I don't use clips when I first heard it I was like you spent like two hours on the phone to like use clips and he's planning to use it once or twice you know be like okay but he wants to use it because you know what he's a fan of technology that's awesome like that's awesome it's just one of those things yeah like I stopped using Clips after you know when Apple came up this social minor social media app clips I tried I'm like oh it's kind of fun but I'll never use this and I I think they updated it recently with and imma still never gonna use it yeah okay next call thank you for calling here we go they tried though they tried hey beat your tongue or possibly Brian and song this is Dan Cohen from the great white north I just wanted to call and let you guys know that the iPhone 10 bug with the cold weather before they just patched it in the latest update here was driving the absolutely bonkers like minus 18 on the Reg up here and yeah it's the phone just wasn't working we're catching the bus and you're not even able to change the volume on the phone pretty not anyway actually calling it as hope you guys might want to touch on why Apple watch Series 3 has the limitation of not being of the roam in other countries so right now as that can't take Apple watch series 3 abroad and use roaming or if you're an American and you use your phone or so your watch by it in another country you can take it back home and Sue's it so anyway long story short I'm just curious if you could touch on what you think technical limitation is there so the watch doesn't work while roaming anyway thanks so much peach atong going strong yourself by great call you know from what I gather and this is off the top of my head and I remember this even when Apple announced it the Isom technology is very new but what that what that's not really the reason why it doesn't work overseas roaming not all carriers are capable of supporting isom yet and so because of that you have specifically internationally - you have if you even look at which companies are sorry which carriers and which countries are supporting the Apple watch LTE version to work it's it's pretty limited overall it's not like every country is doing the Apple watch Series three LTE that's the LTE version we're talking about so with the Isom technology not all chairs are supporting it it's very limited outside of I believe us and did Canada recently there were only even with some of them there's only one specific carrier that would support it in other countries so that's really why they will get up to speed but at the moment that's the biggest reason why you don't see any roaming with the Apple watch LTE specifically just it's just not ready to roll and carriers aren't on board with with support for yet all right well thanks for that call from our friend from Kannada Canada got another call two more here we go okay guys this is Marc in Orange County California question I just bought an egg plus and love it I'd like to be able to use the lightning headset on various audio devices and I'm having a difficult time finding an adaptive so I wanna know if you know of any adapter that goes from a lightning female to either 3.5 millimeter male a thunderbolt male or USB male so that I can use my headsets on more than just an iPhone I love the show looking forward to the answer and thank you shopping for him no I thought I actually had his answer but he said lightning female 2 3.5 millimeter jack male I thought he meant like m'lady male 2 3.5 millimeter jack male and I do not see anything like I haven't I don't I don't I don't see might not exist but yeah like a Google search what would it be lightning female female-to-male 3.5 yeah if you put that in a Google search something will pop up and then or not it is yeah or not so we tried to help we thought we could help but Pearson I can tell all right part of the big part of the reason why that's also probably tricky is because typically unless you find like some bootleg version Apple charges a licensing for you to use any to use their lightning connection in a third party accessory Wow just saying okay Ike what's not able to help them my bad don't have this all right here we go dongle problems last call hi there just know what calling from Canada I just want to share I found a quick little trick on the Apple TV that I don't know if it's new or didn't seem to be a parent anyway if you double click the button to the right of the menu button the TV button or whatever that is it pops into like a multitasking scroll wheel anyway other people find that useful thanks but cool I didn't even know that honestly I'm gonna try that try it out I'm gonna check it out we learn things from everyone all the time so that's great so ok bro is that again is that gonna be here that's it we just have one more piece of business to take care of and you're right try it out yeah okay I will read I'll let you play some nice fun fancy music there we go it's playing all right let's check this out again thanks to our friends at or be Wi-Fi is something you don't think you really need or you don't really think about because we're so jaded by it but you'd only think about it when you don't have it or it's not working properly you got your video buffering you got your Wi-Fi dead zones everyone home for the holidays is fighting for your Wi-Fi so remember think about it when did you last upgrade your Wi-Fi at home Steven Beecham hasn't done in a long time yes a long time need to do it so if you want just better Wi-Fi 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